2009 · drama · documentary · farming
Agrarian Utopia
Directed by Uruphong Raksasad2h 2m2009
Facing seizure of their own lands, two families found themselves farming together on the same field, hoping to get through just another rice-farming season like every year. But no matter how much the world is evolving, how much the country is going through economic, political and social changes, they still cannot grasp that ideology of happiness.
Our read: Agrarian Utopia (2009) reads as a sombre, slow-burn, inventive drama · documentary · farming entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Sombre, slow-burn, gentle drama / documentary, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- sombre
- slow-burn
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